WOW!!! Now that's awesome!
The non-aussies here probably think that happens to us all the time. but no way. That's really cool. I see waaay more dead roos than live ones up here - which is a shame. Most of em are road kill on the highways.

Weird thing happened to me the first weekend I was back in the coutry, I saw 5 kangaroos in one afternoon! Live ones! I almost fell over at how many I saw. And I was just driving through the outer suburbs of Townsville.

We used to get a lot of cassowaries up here, but unfortunately housing developments are cutting into the rainforest on the hills and so they're running out of space. The huge beasts used to just walk through backyards and streets!!
I don't think I've seen a cassowary for about 8 years now which is a shame. I think they're the most amazing animals, along with huuuge kangaroos. They just look so prehistoric.

When we were little, we used to walk through the forest to go to the shops (which were obviously on the other side of the forest)

And oneday we were with mum, and there were these guys in the forest, so she grabbed us and kept still. and the next thing a kangaroo jumped in front of us and scared the **** out of her.. hehe... apparently she said to my brother "can you smell that?"

Unfortunately they are developing all the land near us, which used to be a forest.

I dunno if anyone has heard of it, but we are in collingwood park, near where they are building the collingwood park estate (it seems to be all over the radio)